clean up (one's) act

clean up your act

COMMON If a person or organization cleans up their act, they stop behaving badly or illegally. The Minister warned the press that privacy laws would be implemented unless newspapers cleaned up their act.There is enormous corruption in the game, but the game does not want to clean up its act.

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